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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-minute worldwide look at the weekend.
7.50 Travel news and What's on VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.20 TROMPETTO on food; at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at
8.45 Todays Papers

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by DOUGLAS SMITH
9.45 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING follows the passage of a Bill through the House of Commons and assesses the impact of the House on it.
Narrator DOUGLAS SMITH Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
JOHN TURTLE, ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard Evans
Read By:
Douglas Smith
Unknown:
Anthony King
Narrator:
Douglas Smith
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe

10.30 Value for Money
Four programmes on the consumer movement
3: Producer and Customer
Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR (Repeated: Wed, 7.0 pm, R3)
11.0 Workface
A 20-part case study in industrial relations
19: Members in Management
11.30 Key to Music
Twelve programmes in which PETER WISHART examines the basic materials of music. 11: Development and Recapitulation
(Publication, 90p: page 40)

Contributors

Presented By:
Graham Tayar
Unknown:
Peter Wishart

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in Hong Kong, Masirah and Gan.
Panel: NAN WINTON , TED MOULT NEIL DURDEN-SMITH V
RAF Masirah and Salalah:
DENIS EVES , GORDON RUST DAVID CRWYS-WILLIAMS
IAN GRANT Questionmaster
ALUN WILLIAMS
Questions set by the producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(By arrangement with BFBS) (Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Denis Eves
Unknown:
Gordon Rust
Unknown:
David Crwys-Williams
Unknown:
Ian Grant
Unknown:
Alun Williams
Producer:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

starring Wilfrid Brambell Harry H. Corbett featuring ANTHONY SHARP with JO MANNING WILSON
WILLIAM EEDLE
The Colour Problem
Written and adapted for radio by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfrid Brambell
Unknown:
Harry H. Corbett
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Unknown:
William Eedle
Unknown:
Ray Galton
Unknown:
Alan Simpson
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

Unwelcome Presence by JAMES BRABAZON with Daphne Slater and David Buck
' Sometimes I wonder which is worse, a woman who thinks for herself or a woman who doesn't.'
Producer JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne Slater
Unknown:
David Buck
Producer:
Jane Graham
Harold:
John Rowe
Madeline:
Daphne Slater
Andrew Fletcher:
David Blick
Philip:
Christopher Good

Introduced by Judith Chalmers Gift-Shop Revisited: by ANNE JONES , collector of trading stamps.
What the European papers say. The Good Life: GUIRNE VAN ZUYLEN talks about her new book on food and wine
More for Your Money - 1: BETTY NICHOLLS , bank manager Tattooing: DILYS MORGAN on the strange art of skin painting The Fortunate Painter by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: abridged and read by BRUCE BEEBY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Anne Jones
Talks:
Guirne van Zuylen
Unknown:
Betty Nicholls
Unknown:
Dilys Morgan
Read By:
Bruce Beeby

Alan Bates recalling his stage and film career with scenes from Women in Love Nothing But the Best
The Go-Between, The Fixer
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bates
Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

The game that turns the pages of showbiz history
Tony Britton. Bryan Forbes
Moira Lister , Francis Matthews Chairman Jack Watson Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Producer JOHN DYAS
(Tony Britton is in ' Move Over, Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news. weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Britton.
Unknown:
Bryan Forbes
Unknown:
Moira Lister
Unknown:
Francis Matthews
Unknown:
Jack Watson
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Producer:
John Dyas
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Mrs Markham

by Joyce Cary adapted as a comedy for radio by Donald McWhinnie
with Bryan Pringle as Gulley Jimson, an artist

Contributors

Author:
Joyce Cary
Adapted for radio by:
Donald McWhinnie
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Gulley Jimson, an artist:
Bryan Pringle
Mr Hickson:
Godfrey Kenton
Coker:
Cleo Sylvestre
Captain Jones:
Basil Jones
Nosy:
Brian Hewlett
Sara Monday:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Alabaster:
Gerald Cross
Lady Beeder:
Grizelda Hervey
Sir William Beeder:
William Fox
Lola, a model:
Julia Lang
Abel, a sculptor:
Brian Haines
Other parts:
Nigel Anthony
Other parts:
Douglas Blackwell.
Other parts:
Lynn Carson
Other parts:
John Dearth
Other parts:
Olwen Griffiths
Other parts:
Fraser Kerr
Other parts:
Michael Kilgarriff
Other parts:
Tom Knowles
Other parts:
Diana Robson
Other parts:
Frank Singuineau

A late-evening conversation in Which PROFESSOR BRIAN CHAPMAN , BR CLAIRE PALLEY and ROGER POOLE exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with Brian Redhead
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Brian Chapman
Unknown:
Claire Palley
Unknown:
Roger Poole
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Michael Green

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